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Tuscaloosa, Alabama doom metal band Sqquat formed in 2022, adding a heavy, slow-burning presence to the Deep South's doom and heavy underground with oppressive, low-tempo riffs.
Chicago, Illinois heavy metal outfit Squadron have been active since 2013, drawing from the classic traditions of the genre and contributing to the city's enduring heavy metal underground.
Detroit, Michigan goregrind band Squalid trace their origins back to 1985, making them one of the longer-running acts in the city's extreme underground with decades of gory, blast-driven aggression.
Raleigh, North Carolina's Squall have combined heavy and stoner metal since 2012, blending muscular riff-driven songwriting with the hazy, groove-heavy influence of the stoner rock and metal traditions.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's Squalor have played death metal and grindcore since 2010, merging the brutality of both genres into a relentlessly abrasive sound rooted in the mid-Atlantic underground.
Yorkshire's Squalords deal in the kind of doom-sludge hybrid that feels like wading through wet concrete. Since 2014, they have cultivated a sound that is unrelentingly heavy and deliberately paced.
Pacifica, California sludge metal outfit Squalus formed in 2017, delivering the slow, distortion-heavy weight of sludge metal from the Bay Area coastline with a suitably murky and oppressive sonic identity.
Waterbury, Connecticut goregrind band Squashed Beef formed in 2020, embracing the genre's irreverent extremity and splatter-themed aesthetic with blasting drums and guttural, pitch-shifted vocals.
Raleigh, North Carolina's Squatch have fused thrash and sludge metal since 2010, combining the aggression of thrash with the punishing, slow-grinding heaviness of sludge to form a distinctly caustic sound.
California death metal band Squelch formed in 2024, operating within the state's vast and varied extreme metal tradition with a focus on straightforward, unadorned death metal brutality.
Fort Wayne, Indiana brutal death metal act Squelching formed in 2020, bringing the genre's signature hyper-compressed heaviness and guttural extremity to a city with a small but dedicated extreme metal following.
Rust Belt Sludge Punk from the hills of Southern Ohio.
Watertown, Wisconsin groove metal band Squidhammer formed in 2022, channeling the heavy mid-tempo punch and locking rhythms of groove metal from a small city in the Wisconsin underground.
Asheville, North Carolina stoner metal outfit Squidlord have been active since 2014, fitting comfortably within Asheville's vibrant and eclectic heavy music underground with fuzz-heavy, psychedelic-tinged stoner metal.
Seattle, Washington groove metal band Squirrel Hands formed in 2021, bringing heavy mid-tempo riffing and locked-in rhythmic weight to a city with a storied history of heavy and extreme music.
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